PHP 5 Released, New Tools from Microsoft

PHP 5 was released, and if that wasn’t good enough, Microsoft is planning to release some swank development tools for ASP.NET. Also, they have a lite version of SQL Server, called SQL Express, that is to compete with the likes of MySQL but with fewer license restrictions (supposedly) than MSDE. Finally, they are also developing a lite version of Visual Studio, called Visual Web Developer, that is a supported follow-up to ASP.NET Web Matrix.

July 13th, 2004  Web - Development   Tags: asp.net, microsoft, mysql, php, programming, Software, sql, www, more...

Master Pages in ASP.NET

I found a most excellent article explaining how to create page templates (aka master pages) with ASP.NET. It’s pretty simple to use. Support for Master Pages is scheduled to be included with ASP.NET 2.0, but until then this server control works quite well.

• ASP.NET Master Pages

June 11th, 2004  Web - Development   Tags: asp.net, master pages, programming, www, more...

ASP.NET on Apache

I just found out that it is possible to run ASP.NET on Apache using, amazingly enough, Microsoft open source sample web server, Cassini! That’s pretty cool, considering how incompatible Classic ASP was with non-Microsoft web servers. Hopefully it will only be a matter of time before someone writes an Apache module for it.

December 17th, 2003  Web - Development   Tags: apache, asp.net, foss, linux, microsoft, mono, Software, more...